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Preservice Teachers’ Social Networking Use, Concerns, and Educational Possibilities: Trends from 2008-2012

SITE 2014Joan. E. Hughes, Yujung Ko, Mihyun Lim, Sa Liu

joanh@austin.utexas.edu@techedges

Research Questions

1. How are preservice teachers using social technologies in preservice teacher education?

2. What are preservice teachers’ concerns regarding social technologies?

3. Are preservice teachers considering using social technologies in their future teaching?

Methods

• Participantso 4 years, cross-sectional observational, descriptive

survey method study o 206 preservice teachers, 8 preservice cohorts

between 2008-2012 in a U.S. teacher education program of a large university

o Volunteer-based; Consented to participate

● Instrumentso A 20-30 minute end-of-program surveyo SPSS 21.0

Results - Question 1

How are preservice teachers using social

technologies in preservice teacher

education?

Frequency of Using SNS

Types of SNS Use

SNS Types\ Academic Year 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012

Facebook 96.9 100.0 100.0 100.0

MySpace 32.8 13.5 7.5 0.0

LinkedIn 6.3 8.1 10.0 11.1

Friendster 1.6 0.0 2.5 0.0

Pinteresta - - - 72.7

Windows Live Spaces 1.6 0.0 0.0 0.0

Yahoo! 360 0 0 0 5.6

Otherb: Twitter 4.7 5.4 2.5 5.5

Otherb: Blog (Livejournal, Tumblr) 3.1 0 5.0 0

Otherb: Listserv 0 0 2.5 0

Otherb: Social network (iVillage) 1.6 0 0 0

Use of SNS for social/personal activities

SNS for Learning/Communicating/Sharing

Reading Blogs

Writing Blogs

Reading Wikis

Writing Wikis

Reading Twitter

Writing Twitter

Purpose of Use

Results - Question 2

What are preservice teachers’ concerns

regarding social technologies?

Preservice Teachers’ Restrictions on SNS

Preservice Teachers’ Concerns

Results - Question 3

Are preservice teachers considering

using social technologies in their future

teaching?

Academic Year Mean S.D. n

2010 - 2011 3.15 1.64 40

2011 - 2012 2.56 1.58 18

Note. Scale from 1 (very unlikely) to 6 (very likely).

Use SNS in Future Teaching

Limitations

• Generalizability

• Only one teacher education program

• Self-reported perceptions of SNS use

Q&A Session

E-mails: joanh@austin.utexas.edu

yujung.ko@utexas.edu mhlim@utexas.edu

liusa@utexas.edu

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